nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20211227-205148-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 211227s2021||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20211227-205148-0 doi eng 342 23 Levinson, Sanford V. Author aut The Iron Cage of Veneration Levinson, Sanford V. Verfassungsblog 2021-12-27 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier From my perspective, the most fundamental question that Arato and Sajó are asking is precisely how committed lawyers and constitutionalists should be to particular political systems that do not, at least on the surface, offer any grounds for optimism that the next election will “vote the rascals out of office” and enable forward movement to achieving the grand aspirations of a liberal constitutional order. Paradoxically or not, one might have more hope about Hungary, Poland, Chile, Brazil, or other countries unafflicted by “veneration” of a constitutional system that, left unreformed, serves as an iron cage, a “clear and present danger” to the actual achievement of liberal constitutional aspirations. funded by the government CC BY-SA 4.0 Constitutional Reset Constitutional restoration Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/the-iron-cage-of-veneration/ raw object